Do you think we will see 4.4 Kitkat as our last update?

[steveu694]

So the S2 started life with gingerbread, then got ICS, then it's final update was jelly bean. I know we are rumored to skip 4.2.2 and go right to 4.3, but do you guys think the S3 will ever see Kitkat?

Just wondering because I may buy out the remaining 10 months of my contract w/ verizon and go with the nexus 5 on T-Mobile if 4.3 is our last update.

 

[mydian]

I think we'll get it but it won't be until next summer. If not I'm sure there will be a custom rom available.

 

[Calc]

still waiting for 4.3 :/ Samsung has really dropped the ball with S III .. Official release is still 4.1.4

 

[lexluthor]

I doubt we'll ever set an official kitkat release for this phone.

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

I'm still new to the s3 and to sammy devices but from what I read Sammy releases 2 major updates to there phones. We started on ICS and were updated to jb. So following that logic we WILL see kitkat. Its just a matter of time. And if we don't there's always Cyanogenmod that WILL release 4.4 for the S3

 

[jmatherly411]

Lets take one update at a time and get 4.3 first then lets try to get a piece of that KitKat.

 

[Rxpert83]

i'm still new to the s3 and to sammy devices but from what i read sammy releases 2 major updates to there phones. We started on ics and were updated to jb. So following that logic we will see kitkat. Its just a matter of time. And if we don't there's always cyanogenmod that will release 4.4 for the s3

4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

I don't think you can count 4.3 to 4.4 as a major upgrade without counting 4.1 to 4.2 as well as 4.2 to 4.3

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

I don't think you can count 4.3 to 4.4 as a major upgrade without counting 4.1 to 4.2 as well as 4.2 to 4.3

I thought major updates were when Google changed the name ICS to jb to kk...

 

[Rxpert83]

I thought major updates were when Google changed the name ICS to jb to kk...

This ended up being a little rant-y, so i apologise ahead of time. Not directed at anyone, just my general feeling toward the naming system.

The names are just marketing IMO.

4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 were all called jellybean, yet they each got their own press event, each got new devices released alongside them, and each brought some decent new features.

If you peel back the thin veil, with 4.2 Google started reporting their usage numbers not by android version number, but by version name.

Now everyone running "jellybean"(4.1.0-4.3.1) gets lumped in and reported together. Something they had previously only done with say 4.1.0-4.1.2.

This had huge implications for everyone crying fragmentation, because it allowed Google to say "jellybean" had the most market share, even though that spanned devices released and upgraded over an entire year rather than the 6 month cycle used previously

So ultimately...What's in a name? Most developers** will go by version number, and according to that these releases are all just as "major".

**I don't count myself as one of those fine folks